It was 1952 when Keith Jackson broadcast, on radio,
his first college football game -- Stanford at Washington State. Stanford won 14-13 when
the Cougar holder fumbled the snap for the extra point. And 48 seasons later, Keith
Jackson is still having fun at the college football stadium and still sees Walter Mitty on
occasional Saturdays.

When ABC Sports acquired the broadcast rights for
NCAA football in 1966, Jackson was a member of the announcing corps; and going into the
first season of the new century he is still a member of the ABC corps, though his work is
primarily the Pac-10 Conference. Keith says, "Travel was the devil that
convinced" him that "ONE TIME ZONE equaled longevity." He is not convinced
72 years has anything to do with it.

At the close of 1999, Keith Jackson was awarded the
National Football Foundation and Hall of Fame Gold Medal, its highest honor; and named to
the Rose Bowl Hall of Fame, the first broadcaster accorded these distinguished honors.
Another first for Jackson was the Amos Alonzo Stagg Award from the American Football
Coaches Association; and he was named National Sportscaster of the Year five successive
times by the National Sportswriters and Sportscasters Association. He is in the NSSA Hall
of Fame, The National Sportscasters Association Hall of Fame and the Southern California
Sports Broadcasters Hall of Fame.

Jackson's career highlights include 10 Winter and
Summer Olympics, in which he covered the two greatest gold medal winners in the history of
the Olympic Games. In 1972, Mark Spitz won seven gold medals in swimming and in 1980, Eric
Heiden won five individual gold medals in speedskating. He has worked eleven World Series
and League Championship Series in baseball; NBA basketball in the '60s and '70s; auto
racing, including NASCAR, USAC, and Formula One, including seven Grand Prix of Monaco
races. Jackson has covered many different kinds of events for "ABC's Wide World of
Sports," with travels to 31 different countries. In 1958, while at KOMO Radio and
Television in Seattle, he did the first live sports broadcast from the Soviet Union to the
United States.

Jackson spent 10 years at ABC affiliate KOMO in
Seattle in news, sports and production. He moved from KOMO to ABC Radio West as sports
director in 1964 and continued freelance work with ABC Sports before becoming full-time in
1966. He also worked as a radio news correspondent during those years. In 1965, he worked
a baseball telecast with Jackie Robinson in the afternoon and covered the Watts riots that
same night in Los Angeles.

Jackson was born and raised on a farm near the
Georgia-Alabama state line. He served four years in the U.S. Marines, including time in
China. He attended Washington State College with the intent to study police and political
science, but graduated with a degree in broadcast journalism, learning his trade in the
same studios that produced Edward R. Murrow, among others in the broadcast industry.

Keith and his wife of 48 years, Turi Ann, reside in Sherman
Oaks, California. They have three children -- Melanie Ann, Lindsey and
Christopher. They also have two grandchildren, Ian McKenzie and Holly
Elizabeth